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Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?

Henry Kissinger

A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Genius Security
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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Choice Government Intelligence Limitation Thinking
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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Growth Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful
George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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Desire Heart Life Lose Tragedy Yourself
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Creation Freedom Peace Rule
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Choice Important Reputation Worth
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World

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